Breaking Down the Douchiest Article You May Ever Read About Paul Ryan (Or Fraternities)
As you may or may not have read several times on this website, Paul Ryan was in a fraternity. Delta Tau Delta to be specific. Pretty cool, right? Well not if you’re a nitpicking asshole looking to demonize the GOP’s Vice Presidential candidate in any way possible.
Listen, there’s plenty to criticize about Paul Ryan, just like there is with any candidate in either party. Not everyone is going to like the guy, especially not liberals, I get that. But holy shit can people keep their criticisms somewhere near reality? This article from a blog called “TBogg” (I’m assuming it’s super reputable) is about a year old, but it wouldn’t surprise me if the issue the column addresses resurfaces in the near future, considering Ryan’s controversial stances student loans and Pell Grants. I doubt anyone worth listening to will write anything as abrasive as this dick has, but you never know.
Paul Ryan Has A Soft Spot For America’s Beer/Rape Hostels
Ugh, that’s title. He called fraternity houses “Rape Hostels.” It’s stupid for so many reasons, but mostly because “Rape Hostel” is redundant.
But Ryan thinks it is also very important that we extend a helping hand to our future leaders who are painstakingly culled from our collegiate student
herdpopulation and housed in the petri dishes of future excellence more commonly referred to as “sororities’ and “fraternities”:
What the author is referring to is Paul Ryan’s support of three different bills that would have made charitable contributions for the construction of fraternity and sorority houses tax deductible. I remember hearing about this bill while I was in school. I remember hearing about it ALL.THE.TIME. If I remember correctly, without doing any research (yet), the bill essentially allowed an alum or whoever to donate very specifically to the purchasing of material for improvements/construction. So if your chapter were say, constructing a new fraternity house and you donated money to the cause, your money would not be tax deductible if it was used to pay the architect, but it would be if it was used to purchase the wood, brick, dry wall, etc. to actually build the house. Keep in mind this is off the top of my head. Now let’s do some research.
Fraternal educational foundations (501(c.)(3) organizations) would be able to make grants to the not-for-profit house corporations of their respective undergraduate chapters (501(c.)(2) or (c.)(7) organizations) for a larger array of purposes including bricks and mortar infrastructure and life safety improvements to chapter housing.
So yeah, I think I pretty much got that right. Feel free to correct me if you think I’m wrong though. Regardless, I don’t see how that’s such a big deal. As the link I provided above points out, “Under the current tax code, colleges and universities may expend tax-deductible charitable contributions for the building, improvement or alteration of student facilities including dormitories, dining halls, study areas, libraries, computers, laundry facilities, physical fitness facilities, and social or recreational areas.”
Considering that fraternities and sororities house roughly one out of every eight college students it only seems fair to extend some sort of tax break to them. Oh and by the way, these bills had bipartisan support from Greeks on both sides of the aisle, but never mind that, that’s one of those “unhelpful facts.”
Also, information like that isn’t useful to the author because he’d rather make lame fraternity/sorority jokes than an actual point.
And, besides, we can’t have these young people wasting all of their (parents) money on stupid dumb stuff like housing when those dollars could be flowing into the economy by paying for red Solo cups, Natty Light, Taco Bell, ping pong balls, roofies, Bob Marley posters, TOM’s shoes, non-medical marijuana, black BMW’s, and abortions.
Think of it as trickle down only it smells like light beer, THC, and STD’s…
Roofies, LAWL. He got us good. Trust me buddy, roofies aside and swapping out abortions for Plan B, all that stuff gets purchased aplenty no matter who is paying our housing bills. But we’re not all spoiled brats by the way, I guarantee you FAFSA has inadvertently killed its fair share of embryos too.
When I read things about fraternities and sororities as unabashedly negative as this I can’t help but wonder how miserable the author’s college experience must have been. I mean, to feel that negatively about anything from your college days you almost certainly have to have had a general negative experience. Although considering his hilariously low reading comprehension level that I’ll point out in a second, I also can’t help but wonder whether or not the guy even went to college. It’s really awesome when someone is trying SO hard to make a point and be edgy at the same time, but has no idea what the hell they’re talking about. I’M SPITTIN’ TRUTH MOTHUFUCKUHS! DEAL WITH IT.
You’ll notice that the author blatantly claims that the legislation would have allowed alumni donations to pay the housing bills. To the author, how fucking stupid are you? Literally like three seconds of research would have told you otherwise. Then you could have made really awesome fraternity jokes about how the bill was passed so that our rape rooms (or Rapetoriums) could get new hardwood flooring and a chandelier from which to hang forcibly removed panties. I mean, that would have been technically inaccurate, since every fraternity man knows a good Rapetorium needs to have a dirt floor, so that it’s more degrading, but whatever, semantics. I can’t give you free ones all day, chief.
So Paul Ryan (as well as other Republicans AND Democrats) wanted to pass some bills that would have reasonably allowed institutions that help students with housing and scholarship expand their ability to help students with housing and scholarship? So what? By all means keep up the spiteful irrationality, it really helps your cause.
[h/t to reader SkoalHammer]
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12 years ago at 3:47 pmKind of funny that this article is called “Breaking down the douchiest article…” when all of TFM’s articles are far douchier. I love TFM, but let’s be real now.
12 years ago at 7:32 am^yessir
12 years ago at 10:52 pmAs a registered Independent, I do not support a lot of Paul Ryan stands for. However, this is without a doubt the stupidest article/blog/whatever I’ve ever read. By painting all Greeks as rapists, without any regard for all the positives of Greek Life this writer has deeply offending me.
12 years ago at 3:53 pmNever mind that chapters raise thousands of dollars for charities every year, and never mind that I’ve paid every cent of my dues/other fraternity fees with my own money I earned from working summer jobs, the most offensive thing is that I, simply because I joined organization dedicated to “Building Better Men,” am apparently a serial rapist. My parents raised me to respect every woman as if she were my mother (I don’t have any sisters) and I try to abide by that every day, be it holding a door open for a lady or pulling her chair out at dinner. I would never force a woman to participate in any sexual activity she did not want to, and for this writer to suggest that I am anything less than a gentleman due to my affiliation is horribly offensive. Thank you Bacon for tearing this fucker a new one.
Being a serial killer. FaF
12 years ago at 7:03 pm^^ Speaking of food that’s SUPPOSED to be cream filled…
12 years ago at 7:36 pm^^speaking of food that’s supposed to be cream-filled…
12 years ago at 10:23 pmAwww, Goatley…
12 years ago at 12:05 amLogic. That guy had none.
12 years ago at 3:59 pmI would like to point out that Tom’s are gay as fuck
12 years ago at 4:19 pm^ Agreed
12 years ago at 4:58 pmTom’s. TtekeM.
12 years ago at 7:50 pm^^^
12 years ago at 8:05 pm^^^^
12 years ago at 7:50 am^^^^^
12 years ago at 6:47 amSomeone didn’t get a bid
12 years ago at 4:23 pm^ This
12 years ago at 4:48 pm^^ I need more of this.
12 years ago at 8:05 pmWho the fuck buys TOM’s shoes?
12 years ago at 4:43 pmI think the TOM’s thing was in reference to sorority girls.
12 years ago at 4:46 pmWe still prefer Sperrys.
12 years ago at 6:46 pm^ Doubtful, I fucking love my peace sign pink TOM’s.
12 years ago at 7:27 pmWhat are TOM’s? Is that a brand or a type of shoe?
12 years ago at 4:52 pmEither way, NF as fuck.
12 years ago at 4:53 pmI believe it is an old, old wooden ship used during the Civil War Era.
12 years ago at 9:42 amI believe he was the guy who invented facebook.
12 years ago at 11:41 amin German means a whale’s vagina.
12 years ago at 8:27 pmI had a few Toms, untill the 13th Amendment took them away.
12 years ago at 5:13 pm^something was done here
12 years ago at 5:18 pmlmao
12 years ago at 6:07 pmTook me a second, but regardless fucking hilarious. haha
12 years ago at 7:22 pm^^^ this fucking guy
12 years ago at 7:24 pm^^^^ This guy gets it
12 years ago at 7:51 am^^^^^^ Laugh of the day award goes to… White Goodman! For having a joke that involves things that are not so white.
12 years ago at 12:38 pmThat was such a poorly researched argument it is actually sad. Opinionated blogs are one thing, but when you try to spin quotes your way and spew a myriad of insults its a failure. I enjoyed Bacon’s point that Greek Life makes up a substantial portion of student bodies and therefore should get some sort of tax benefits as the rest of the academic scene does.
12 years ago at 5:59 pmI think the main thing Bacon was attempting to point out the author’s lack of knowledge and respect towards the Greek community rather than show support towards the bill, although most of us agree with it.
12 years ago at 7:45 pmAnd those quotes were so ridiculous I don’t know how you think they were taken out of context.
“…But the Greek system is the forge of American exceptionalism where the children of privilege enter as douchebags/closet cases/jock sniffers/roofie aficionados/Meg Whitman’s kid or sluts/anorexics/secret alcoholics/lesbians until opposite marriage and moving to Connecticut. ”
Sounds like somebody got left on the doorstep with a couple of PBR’s in their cargo pockets outside of every party ever.
12 years ago at 7:46 amAfter reading this article and reading the comments I find it amazing how people who don’t like fraternities generally seem to be liberal, and moreover how those same liberals who advertise equality and tolerance spit nothing but venom in our direction even though they have not a shred of an idea about what being a fraternity man is all about. It’s just a little ironic and highlights the fallacy of modern liberalism in general: it’s ok to have differnt beliefs and ideas, just so long as they don’t oppose my own. Romney/Ryan 2012
12 years ago at 6:08 pmLiberals love to talk about tolerance when they’re weak. They love to use the word “tolerance” but what they are really looking for is acceptance. Every once in awhile they’ll come out and show their true colors.
12 years ago at 10:52 pmThose comments were some of the most atrocious things I’ve ever seen. A former fraternity man is defending his pride as having once been in a fraternity with proper logic and eloquent vocabulary while a liberal fucktard responds to his every comment with “you’re an idiot cocksucker, go be gay (paraphrased).” It’s painful how blindly prejudice some people can be.
12 years ago at 6:50 amLiberals aren’t afraid to fight. They’ll lie, cheat, and pretty much do anything at all costs to win an argument. They have a way of spinning your point of view to make you look like the bad guy. “You believe in freedom of speech? Well you must hate the gays….You were in a fraternity? You must’ve raped women.” No matter what you believe, if it doesn’t align with their beliefs, you’re wrong. The worst part, though, we let them get away with it. We need to stop being “thumb sucking patriots” and fight back. Stop being afraid to speak your mind; I guarantee you they’re not.
12 years ago at 8:19 amLiberals use Doublespeak which is the manipulation of the definition of words and how they are used. It’s for them to use against us(Republicans) when we aren’t “politically correct”. Politically correct in my opinion, is politically wrong. If I want to say the sky is purple, it’s fucking purple. I don’t need some half-ass liberal to tell me otherwise.
12 years ago at 9:55 am